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0NewsHandling Covid-19: Which Countries Have Done the Best — and Which Have Done the Worst?
In Bloomberg’s monthly ‘Covid Resilience Ranking,’ Malaysia’s December position improved seven places from November’s. Each month, Bloomberg crunches the numbers to get a...
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0NewsMalaysia’s Covid-19 Vaccinations Expected to Begin in February
The Prime Minister will be among the first to be immunised to show confidence in the vaccine. Malaysia’s government expects the initial...
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0NewsAsia’s Happiest Country is Latest to Decriminalize Same-Sex Relationships
Continually ranked as the happiest country in Asia, and eighth-happiest in the world, Bhutan’s parliament approved a bill to decriminalize same-sex relations...
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0News‘Help Is On the Way’: Looking Ahead to a More Hopeful 2021
There can be no doubt that, although many things happened in many places during 2020, the year’s defining event played out globally...
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0NewsYear-End Despair: The Next Global Covid Wave is Here
Experts warned us months ago that winter would bring a catastrophic resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. They told us outbreaks would be...
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0ASEAN NewsIs a Regional Travel Bubble for ASEAN Coming Soon?
Talks are reaching ever-higher levels, but will we see any real results in the near future? Leaders from the member states of...
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0NewsThailand Decriminalises Category 2 Narcotics Including Cocaine, Opium, and Morphine
It’s a very big deal, but it’s not what you think. In another historic development for the Kingdom of Thailand, the Thai...
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0NewsA Dose of Hope: Is This Our Coronavirus Answer?
In the last week, two pharmaceutical companies have sent hopes (and stock prices) soaring with astonishing results from their separate candidate coronavirus...
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0NewsThais Protest Against Government Ban on Pornhub
Thailand’s government announced a nationwide ban on Pornhub and 190 other porn sites on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The decision has drawn...
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0EntertainmentAll Malaysian Cinemas to Be Temporarily Closed Starting November 2020
The Malaysian Association of Film Exhibitors (MAFE) announced on 30 October 2020 that all 169 cinemas across the country will be temporarily...
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0NewsIt Took Seven Months for Malaysia to Log Its First 10,000 Covid-19 Cases. The Last 10,000 Took Less Than Two Weeks.
With cases from the coronavirus appearing in Malaysia in mid-February, we didn’t cross the 10,000-case mark until September 16. The same number...
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0NewsWater Supply to Resume in 24 Hours says Minister of Environment
As 5 million Selangor residents face a new wave of water cuts, Malaysia’s Minister of Environment and Water told reporters today (19...
